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purplenite	$420,000 - Worst season ever.	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 (08/04/08 09:33 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Join forum supporters Remove this ad So the maximum possible pot this year was $500,000. If Mark had opted for the $75,000, the pot would have been $493,000. Even without this the pot is at $420,000. So who cares who the mole is now? Apparently the "sabotage" was pointless this season if the winner is leaving with close to the maximum prize anyway. It was interesting when Steven got 510k and Dorothy got 636k (out of 1mil), because the mole actually kept a decent amount out of the pot. But this season??? Pointless. I realize that they have been offered $853k so far, but the maximum pot was clearly stated to be 500k. If they had been anywhere near that amount a few weeks ago they would have just dialed down the prizes for each mission. The point of all this rambling... the producers would have been better off saying that the maximum pot was 1 million and offering the same prizes for the missions. Finding out how the mole "sabotaged" when the winner got over 80% of the max won't be too exciting.
The Purple Parrot		#1	[-]
Posts: 6496 (08/04/08 09:39 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Fucking idiot. The max pot was NOT $500,000. They lost $75,000 in this episode alone. Do you really think that they only lost $5,000 in the other episodes combined?
colleenlover		#2	[-]
Posts: 8355 (08/04/08 09:45 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	you really think on a TELEVISION show there's not always going to be a large pot of money for the suspense of who the winner is? if the Mole's true job to sabotage the money was the agenda -the mole would just sit on their ass and run in and mess up everything -it's not like there's not always going to be a final person left at the end of the game.
darkking01		#3	[-]
Posts: 33 (08/04/08 09:49 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	the mole still kept over 50% of the potential money out of the pot and the money giving thing is more the producers problem than the mole's since they assign values to the challenges the mole has no choice but to try to sabatoge as much money as is possible
purplenite		#4	[-]
Posts: 2 (08/04/08 09:54 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	The Purple Parrot wrote: Fucking idiot. The max pot was NOT $500,000. They lost $75,000 in this episode alone. Do you really think that they only lost $5,000 in the other episodes combined? I'm well aware that they lost more than 80k. Like I said, they were offered 853k so far. However, I don't believe the producers would have let the pot go over 500,000. They upped the amounts when the team wasn't getting anywhere near 500k. And I'm not saying this is the mole's fault at all. It is the producers' fault for saying that the max pot was 500k when the winner is getting 420k.
Will		#5	[-]
Posts: 29814 (08/04/08 10:54 PM) Amazing Race Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Join forum supporters Remove this ad As Bill said in his book, as money kept going out of the pot the producers gave the players more chances to put that money back in.
purplenite		#6	[-]
Posts: 3 (08/04/08 11:18 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Will wrote: As Bill said in his book, as money kept going out of the pot the producers gave the players more chances to put that money back in. Exactly. But Bill's year, the producers were smart enough to keep the total pot low enough so that they could show that the mole really sabotaged. This year, the producers gave them so many chances to win their 500k that the mole was fighting a losing battle. No matter what, the mole wasn't going to keep them from getting most of their max pot.
knuckles487		#7	[-]
Posts: 63 (08/05/08 12:55 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Opportunity for 853k total. Since the promos are done after filming I would imagine that based on the total pot they ended up advertising the show as "up to 500k". Had they won 700k during the course of all missions I am sure the show would have been advertised as "up to 3/4 of a million". It's not a question of how close they got to the advertised maximum. It's a question of how much available money was kept from them.
OG sofa		#8	[-]
Posts: 546 (08/05/08 03:47 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	i was driving home tonight and i bought my weekly powerball ticket. me: handing over dollar quickpick powerball. screech, screech, screech as ticket prints off... woman behind the counter: the big prize was won last week, its only $15 million this week. me: only $15 million? really? woman behind the counter: yeah. me: only $15 million? can i get my dollar back? woman behind the counter: no. me: well fuck me. i guess i'll just have to settle for $15 million... what the fuck is wrong with $420,000.00? staying in hotels and eating great meals along this journey? this isn't survivor...
Screerider		#9	[-]
Posts: 22355 (08/05/08 10:25 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Join forum supporters Remove this ad Even the weekly intro shows the $500,000 potential winnings. Has Jon ever told the Players in Game how much money they could potentially take home as winner?

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